Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... Night and Death , Symplegades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graiæ - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival — Stars , their generation — Constellations , their place in Mythology ...
... Night and Death , Symplegades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graiæ - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival — Stars , their generation — Constellations , their place in Mythology ...
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... night- mare the visit of a demon . It being shown that the details of Culture are capable of being classified in a great number of ethnographic groups of arts , beliefs , customs , and the rest , the consideration comes next how far the ...
... night- mare the visit of a demon . It being shown that the details of Culture are capable of being classified in a great number of ethnographic groups of arts , beliefs , customs , and the rest , the consideration comes next how far the ...
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... Nights of Passover , ' London , 1862 ( in the Jewish interpretation the word shunra , - ' cat , ' is compared with shinâr ) . Halliwell , ' Nursery Rhymes , ' p . 288 ; ' Popular Rhymes , ' p . 6 . pertinent , as it ever was . Beyond ...
... Nights of Passover , ' London , 1862 ( in the Jewish interpretation the word shunra , - ' cat , ' is compared with shinâr ) . Halliwell , ' Nursery Rhymes , ' p . 288 ; ' Popular Rhymes , ' p . 6 . pertinent , as it ever was . Beyond ...
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... night : he lies down in the morning until the sun sets ; he then awakes , and works all night ; he does not work by day ; he is not seen when he works ? ' A. ' The closing - poles of the cattle - pen . ' Q. ' Guess ye a man whom men do ...
... night : he lies down in the morning until the sun sets ; he then awakes , and works all night ; he does not work by day ; he is not seen when he works ? ' A. ' The closing - poles of the cattle - pen . ' Q. ' Guess ye a man whom men do ...
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... night ? ' ( the stars . ) Our English riddle of the pair of tongs : ' Long legs , crooked thighs , little head , and no eyes , ' is primitive enough to have been made by a South Sea Islander . The following is on the same theme as one ...
... night ? ' ( the stars . ) Our English riddle of the pair of tongs : ' Long legs , crooked thighs , little head , and no eyes , ' is primitive enough to have been made by a South Sea Islander . The following is on the same theme as one ...
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